今日讀經

空前的蝗災

¹耶和華的話臨到毘土珥的兒子約珥。This is the word of the LORD that came to Joel son of Pethuel:

²老年人哪，當聽我的話；國中的居民哪，都要側耳而聽。在你們的日子，或你們列祖的日子，曾有這樣的事嗎？Hear this, O elders; and give ear, all who dwell in the land. Has anything like this ever happened in your days or in the days of your fathers?

³你們要將這事傳與子，子傳與孫，孫傳與後代。Tell it to your children; let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation.

⁴剪蟲剩下的，蝗蟲來吃；蝗蟲剩下的，蝻子來吃；蝻子剩下的，螞蚱來吃。What the devouring locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten; what the swarming locust has left, the young locust has eaten; and what the young locust has left, the destroying locust has eaten.

⁵酒醉的人哪，要清醒哭泣；好酒的人哪，都要為甜酒哀號，因為從你們的口中斷絕了。Wake up, you drunkards, and weep; wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it has been cut off from your mouth.

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⁶有一隊蝗蟲（原文是民）又強盛又無數，侵犯我的地；牠的牙齒如獅子的牙齒，大牙如母獅的大牙。For a nation has invaded My land, powerful and without number; its teeth are the teeth of a lion, and its fangs are the fangs of a lioness.

⁷牠毀壞我的葡萄樹，剝了我無花果樹的皮，剝盡而丟棄，使枝條露白。It has laid waste My grapevine and splintered My fig tree. It has stripped off the bark and thrown it away; the branches have turned white.

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全地要哀號

⁸我的民哪，你當哀號，像處女腰束麻布，為幼年的丈夫哀號。Wail like a virgin dressed in sackcloth, grieving for the husband of her youth.

⁹素祭和奠祭從耶和華的殿中斷絕；事奉耶和華的祭司都悲哀。Grain and drink offerings have been cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests are in mourning, those who minister before the LORD.

¹⁰田荒涼，地悲哀；因為五穀毀壞，新酒乾竭，油也缺乏。The field is ruined; the land mourns. For the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, and the oil fails.

¹¹農夫啊，你們要慚愧；修理葡萄園的啊，你們要哀號；因為大麥小麥與田間的莊稼都滅絕了。Be dismayed, O farmers, wail, O vinedressers, over the wheat and barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.

¹²葡萄樹枯乾；無花果樹衰殘。石榴樹、棕樹、蘋果樹，連田野一切的樹木也都枯乾；眾人的喜樂盡都消滅。The grapevine is dried up, and the fig tree is withered; the pomegranate, palm, and apple—all the trees of the orchard—are withered. Surely the joy of mankind has dried up.

分定禁食的日子

¹³祭司啊，你們當腰束麻布痛哭；伺候祭壇的啊，你們要哀號；事奉我　神的啊，你們要來披上麻布過夜，因為素祭和奠祭從你們　神的殿中斷絕了。Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, O ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God, because the grain and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.

¹⁴你們要分定禁食的日子，宣告嚴肅會，招聚長老和國中的一切居民到耶和華─你們　神的殿，向耶和華哀求。Consecrate a fast; proclaim a solemn assembly! Gather the elders and all the residents of the land to the house of the LORD your God, and cry out to the LORD.

耶和華的日子臨近

¹⁵哀哉！耶和華的日子臨近了。這日來到，好像毀滅從全能者來到。Alas for the day! For the Day of the LORD is near, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.

¹⁶糧食不是在我們眼前斷絕了嗎？歡喜快樂不是從我們　神的殿中止息了嗎？Has not the food been cut off before our very eyes—joy and gladness from the house of our God?

¹⁷穀種在土塊下朽爛；倉也荒涼，廩也破壞；因為五穀枯乾了。The seeds lie shriveled beneath the clods; the storehouses are in ruins; the granaries are broken down, for the grain has withered away.

¹⁸牲畜哀鳴；牛群混亂，因為無草；羊群也受了困苦。How the cattle groan! The herds wander in confusion because they have no pasture. Even the flocks of sheep are suffering.

¹⁹耶和華啊，我向你求告，因為火燒滅曠野的草場；火焰燒盡田野的樹木。To You, O LORD, I call, for fire has consumed the open pastures and flames have scorched all the trees of the field.

²⁰田野的走獸向你發喘；因為溪水乾涸，火也燒滅曠野的草場。Even the beasts of the field pant for You, for the streams of water have dried up, and fire has consumed the open pastures.

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在錫安吹角

¹你們要在錫安吹角，在我聖山吹出大聲。國中的居民都要發顫；因為耶和華的日子將到，已經臨近。Blow the ram’s horn in Zion; sound the alarm on My holy mountain! Let all who dwell in the land tremble, for the Day of the LORD is coming; indeed, it is near—

²那日是黑暗、幽冥、密雲、烏黑的日子，好像晨光鋪滿山嶺。有一隊蝗蟲（原文是民）又大又強；從來沒有這樣的，以後直到萬代也必沒有。a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness. Like the dawn overspreading the mountains a great and strong army appears, such as never was of old, nor will ever be in ages to come.

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蝗蟲大軍攻城

³牠們前面如火燒滅，後面如火焰燒盡。未到以前，地如伊甸園；過去以後，成了荒涼的曠野；沒有一樣能躲避牠們的。Before them a fire devours, and behind them a flame scorches. The land before them is like the Garden of Eden, but behind them, it is like a desert wasteland—surely nothing will escape them.

⁴牠們的形狀如馬，奔跑如馬兵。Their appearance is like that of horses, and they gallop like swift steeds.

⁵在山頂蹦跳的響聲如車輛的響聲，又如火焰燒碎秸的響聲，好像強盛的民擺陣預備打仗。With a sound like that of chariots they bound over the mountaintops, like the crackling of fire consuming stubble, like a mighty army deployed for battle.

⁶牠們一來，眾民傷慟，臉都變色。Nations writhe in horror before them; every face turns pale.

⁷牠們如勇士奔跑，像戰士爬城；各都步行，不亂隊伍。They charge like mighty men; they scale the walls like men of war. Each one marches in formation, not swerving from the course.

⁸彼此並不擁擠，向前各行其路，直闖兵器，不偏左右。They do not jostle one another; each proceeds in his path. They burst through the defenses, never breaking ranks.

⁹牠們蹦上城，躥上牆，爬上房屋，進入窗戶如同盜賊。They storm the city; they run along the wall; they climb into houses, entering through windows like thieves.

¹⁰牠們一來，地震天動，日月昏暗，星宿無光。Before them the earth quakes; the heavens tremble. The sun and moon grow dark, and the stars lose their brightness.

¹¹耶和華在他軍旅前發聲，他的隊伍甚大；成就他命的是強盛者。因為耶和華的日子大而可畏，誰能當得起呢？The LORD raises His voice in the presence of His army. Indeed, His camp is very large, for mighty are those who obey His command. For the Day of the LORD is great and very dreadful. Who can endure it?

撕裂心腸，一心歸向我

¹²耶和華說：雖然如此，你們應當禁食、哭泣、悲哀，一心歸向我。“Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.”

¹³你們要撕裂心腸，不撕裂衣服。歸向耶和華─你們的　神；因為他有恩典，有憐憫，不輕易發怒，有豐盛的慈愛，並且後悔不降所說的災。So rend your hearts and not your garments, and return to the LORD your God. For He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion. And He relents from sending disaster.

¹⁴或者他轉意後悔，留下餘福，就是留下獻給耶和華─你們　神的素祭和奠祭，也未可知。Who knows? He may turn and relent and leave a blessing behind Him—grain and drink offerings for the LORD your God.

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¹⁵你們要在錫安吹角，分定禁食的日子，宣告嚴肅會。Blow the ram’s horn in Zion, consecrate a fast, proclaim a sacred assembly.

¹⁶聚集眾民，使會眾自潔：招聚老者，聚集孩童和吃奶的；使新郎出離洞房，新婦出離內室。Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the aged, gather the children, even those nursing at the breast. Let the bridegroom leave his room, and the bride her chamber.

¹⁷事奉耶和華的祭司要在廊子和祭壇中間哭泣，說：耶和華啊，求你顧惜你的百姓，不要使你的產業受羞辱，列邦管轄他們。為何容列國的人說：「他們的　神在哪裡」呢？Let the priests who minister before the LORD weep between the portico and the altar, saying, “Spare Your people, O LORD, and do not make Your heritage a reproach, an object of scorn among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”

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耶和華憐恤祂的百姓

¹⁸耶和華就為自己的地發熱心，憐恤他的百姓。Then the LORD became jealous for His land, and He spared His people.

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¹⁹耶和華應允他的百姓說：我必賜給你們五穀、新酒，和油，使你們飽足；我也不再使你們受列國的羞辱；And the LORD answered His people: “Behold, I will send you grain, new wine, and oil, and by them you will be satisfied. I will never again make you a reproach among the nations.

²⁰卻要使北方來的軍隊遠離你們，將他們趕到乾旱荒廢之地：前隊趕入東海，後隊趕入西海；因為他們所行的大惡（原文是事），臭氣上升，腥味騰空。The northern army I will drive away from you, banishing it to a barren and desolate land, its front ranks into the Eastern Sea, and its rear guard into the Western Sea. And its stench will rise; its foul odor will ascend. For He has done great things.

²¹地土啊，不要懼怕；要歡喜快樂，因為耶和華行了大事。Do not be afraid, O land; rejoice and be glad, for the LORD has done great things.

²²田野的走獸啊，不要懼怕；因為，曠野的草發生，樹木結果，無花果樹、葡萄樹也都效力。Do not be afraid, O beasts of the field, for the open pastures have turned green, the trees bear their fruit, and the fig tree and vine yield their best.

²³錫安的民哪，你們要快樂，為耶和華─你們的　神歡喜；因他賜給你們合宜的秋雨，為你們降下甘霖，就是秋雨、春雨，和先前一樣。Be glad, O children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God, for He has given you the autumn rains for your vindication. He sends you showers, both autumn and spring rains, as before.

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²⁴禾場必滿了麥子；酒醡與油醡必有新酒和油盈溢。The threshing floors will be full of grain, and the vats will overflow with new wine and oil.

補還被吃的年日

²⁵我打發到你們中間的大軍隊，就是蝗蟲、蝻子、螞蚱、剪蟲，那些年所吃的，我要補還你們。I will repay you for the years eaten by locusts—the swarming locust, the young locust, the destroying locust, and the devouring locust—My great army that I sent against you.

²⁶你們必多吃而得飽足，就讚美為你們行奇妙事之耶和華─你們　神的名。我的百姓必永遠不致羞愧。You will have plenty to eat, until you are satisfied. You will praise the name of the LORD your God, who has worked wonders for you. My people will never again be put to shame.

²⁷你們必知道我是在以色列中間，又知道我是耶和華─你們的　神；在我以外並無別神。我的百姓必永遠不致羞愧。Then you will know that I am present in Israel and that I am the LORD your God, and there is no other. My people will never again be put to shame.

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將我的靈澆灌凡有血氣的

²⁸以後，我要將我的靈澆灌凡有血氣的。你們的兒女要說預言；你們的老年人要做異夢，少年人要見異象。And afterward, I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.

²⁹在那些日子，我要將我的靈澆灌我的僕人和使女。Even on My menservants and maidservants, I will pour out My Spirit in those days.

³⁰「在天上地下，我要顯出奇事，有血，有火，有煙柱。I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke.

³¹日頭要變為黑暗，月亮要變為血，這都在耶和華大而可畏的日子未到以前。The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and awesome Day of the LORD.

³²到那時候，凡求告耶和華名的就必得救；因為照耶和華所說的，在錫安山，耶路撒冷必有逃脫的人，在剩下的人中必有耶和華所召的。」And everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved; for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be deliverance, as the LORD has promised, among the remnant called by the LORD.

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在約沙法谷審判列國

¹「到那日，我使猶大和耶路撒冷被擄之人歸回的時候，“Yes, in those days and at that time, when I restore Judah and Jerusalem from captivity,

²我要聚集萬民，帶他們下到約沙法谷，在那裡施行審判；因為他們將我的百姓，就是我的產業以色列，分散在列國中，又分取我的地土，I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. There I will enter into judgment against them concerning My people, My inheritance, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations as they divided up My land.

³且為我的百姓拈鬮，將童子換妓女，賣童女買酒喝。They cast lots for My people; they bartered a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine to drink.

⁴「泰爾、西頓，和非利士四境的人哪，你們與我何干？你們要報復我嗎？若報復我，我必使報應速速歸到你們的頭上。Now what do you have against Me, O Tyre, Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you rendering against Me a recompense? If you retaliate against Me, I will swiftly and speedily return your recompense upon your heads.

⁵你們既然奪取我的金銀，又將我可愛的寶物帶入你們宮殿（或譯：廟中），For you took My silver and gold and carried off My finest treasures to your temples.

⁶並將猶大人和耶路撒冷人賣給希臘人（原文是雅完人），使他們遠離自己的境界。You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, to send them far from their homeland.

⁷我必激動他們離開你們所賣到之地，又必使報應歸到你們的頭上。Behold, I will rouse them from the places to which you sold them; I will return your recompense upon your heads.

⁸我必將你們的兒女賣在猶大人的手中，他們必賣給遠方示巴國的人。這是耶和華說的。」I will sell your sons and daughters into the hands of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans—to a distant nation.” Indeed, the LORD has spoken.

將犁頭打成刀劍

⁹當在萬民中宣告說：要預備打仗；激動勇士，使一切戰士上前來。Proclaim this among the nations: “Prepare for war; rouse the mighty men; let all the men of war advance and attack!

¹⁰要將犁頭打成刀劍，將鐮刀打成戈矛；軟弱的要說：我有勇力。Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, ‘I am strong!’

¹¹四圍的列國啊，你們要速速地來，一同聚集。耶和華啊，求你使你的大能者降臨。Come quickly, all you surrounding nations, and gather yourselves. Bring down Your mighty ones, O LORD.

¹²萬民都當興起，上到約沙法谷；因為我必坐在那裡，審判四圍的列國。Let the nations be roused and advance to the Valley of Jehoshaphat, for there I will sit down to judge all the nations on every side.

¹³開鐮吧！因為莊稼熟了；踐踏吧！因為酒醡滿了。酒池盈溢；他們的罪惡甚大。Swing the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, trample the grapes, for the winepress is full; the wine vats overflow because their wickedness is great.

¹⁴許多許多的人在斷定谷，因為耶和華的日子臨近斷定谷。Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the Day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.

¹⁵日月昏暗，星宿無光。The sun and moon will grow dark, and the stars will no longer shine.

¹⁶耶和華必從錫安吼叫，從耶路撒冷發聲，天地就震動。耶和華卻要作他百姓的避難所，作以色列人的保障。The LORD will roar from Zion and raise His voice from Jerusalem; heaven and earth will tremble. But the LORD will be a refuge for His people, a stronghold for the people of Israel.

耶和華住在錫安

¹⁷你們就知道我是耶和華─你們的　神，且又住在錫安─我的聖山。那時，耶路撒冷必成為聖；外邦人不再從其中經過。Then you will know that I am the LORD your God, who dwells in Zion, My holy mountain. Jerusalem will be holy, never again to be overrun by foreigners.

¹⁸到那日，大山要滴甜酒；小山要流奶子；猶大溪河都有水流。必有泉源從耶和華的殿中流出來，滋潤什亭谷。And in that day the mountains will drip with sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk. All the streams of Judah will run with water, and a spring will flow from the house of the LORD to water the Valley of Acacias.

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¹⁹埃及必然荒涼，以東變為悽涼的曠野，都因向猶大人所行的強暴，又因在本地流無辜人的血。Egypt will become desolate, and Edom a desert wasteland, because of the violence done to the people of Judah, in whose land they shed innocent blood.

²⁰但猶大必存到永遠；耶路撒冷必存到萬代。But Judah will be inhabited forever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.

²¹我未曾報復（或譯：洗除；下同）流血的罪，現在我要報復，因為耶和華住在錫安。For I will avenge their blood, which I have not yet avenged.” For the LORD dwells in Zion.

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第一印：白馬

¹我看見羔羊揭開七印中第一印的時候，就聽見四活物中的一個活物，聲音如雷，說：「你來！」Then I watched as the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures say in a voice like thunder, “Come!”

²我就觀看，見有一匹白馬；騎在馬上的，拿著弓，並有冠冕賜給他。他便出來，勝了又要勝。So I looked and saw a white horse, and its rider held a bow. And he was given a crown, and he rode out to overcome and conquer.

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第二印：紅馬

³揭開第二印的時候，我聽見第二個活物說：「你來！」And when the Lamb opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!”

⁴就另有一匹馬出來，是紅的，有權柄給了那騎馬的，可以從地上奪去太平，使人彼此相殺；又有一把大刀賜給他。Then another horse went forth. It was bright red, and its rider was granted permission to take away peace from the earth and to make men slay one another. And he was given a great sword.

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第三印：黑馬

⁵揭開第三印的時候，我聽見第三個活物說：「你來！」我就觀看，見有一匹黑馬；騎在馬上的，手裡拿著天平。And when the Lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come!” Then I looked and saw a black horse, and its rider held in his hand a pair of scales.

⁶我聽見在四活物中似乎有聲音說：「一錢銀子買一升麥子，一錢銀子買三升大麥；油和酒不可糟蹋。」And I heard what sounded like a voice from among the four living creatures, saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius, and do not harm the oil and wine.”

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第四印：灰色馬

⁷揭開第四印的時候，我聽見第四個活物說：「你來！」And when the Lamb opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, “Come!”

⁸我就觀看，見有一匹灰色馬；騎在馬上的，名字叫作死，陰府也隨著他；有權柄賜給他們，可以用刀劍、饑荒、瘟疫（或譯：死亡）、野獸，殺害地上四分之一的人。Then I looked and saw a pale green horse. Its rider’s name was Death, and Hades followed close behind. And they were given authority over a fourth of the earth, to kill by sword, by famine, by plague, and by the beasts of the earth.

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第五印：祭壇下的靈魂

⁹揭開第五印的時候，我看見在祭壇底下，有為　神的道、並為作見證被殺之人的靈魂，And when the Lamb opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony they had upheld.

¹⁰大聲喊著說：「聖潔真實的主啊，你不審判住在地上的人，給我們伸流血的冤，要等到幾時呢？」And they cried out in a loud voice, “How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You judge those who dwell upon the earth and avenge our blood?”

¹¹於是有白衣賜給他們各人；又有話對他們說，還要安息片時，等著一同作僕人的和他們的弟兄也像他們被殺，滿足了數目。Then each of them was given a white robe and told to rest a little while longer until the full number of their fellow servants, their brothers, were killed, just as they had been killed.

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第六印：天象大變

¹²揭開第六印的時候，我又看見地大震動，日頭變黑像毛布，滿月變紅像血，And I watched as the Lamb opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black like sackcloth of goat hair, and the whole moon turned blood red,

¹³天上的星辰墜落於地，如同無花果樹被大風搖動，落下未熟的果子一樣。and the stars of the sky fell to the earth like unripe figs dropping from a tree shaken by a great wind.

¹⁴天就挪移，好像書卷被捲起來；山嶺海島都被挪移離開本位。The sky receded like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved from its place.

誰能站得住呢

¹⁵地上的君王、臣宰、將軍、富戶、壯士，和一切為奴的、自主的，都藏在山洞和巖石穴裡，Then the kings of the earth, the nobles, the commanders, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and free man hid in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains.

¹⁶向山和巖石說：「倒在我們身上吧！把我們藏起來，躲避坐寶座者的面目和羔羊的忿怒；And they said to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of the One seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb.

¹⁷因為他們忿怒的大日到了，誰能站得住呢？」For the great day of Their wrath has come, and who is able to withstand it?”